You've got to be kidding me

[DTro]

that was the line of the night

Went out last night with Harvey Lee and set up at the mouth of a small creek with structure nearby. I told Tom that the bite has been consistently happening from 9-11.

Baited with bullies and circle hooks we waited.....

9 rolls around and pandemonium ensued.

From 9-11 we had no less than 15 runs....probably more!

There was a problem though. We could not get a hook in them.

Very frustrating, the bullies were coming back just mangled

My thought is that these were walleyes. If so they were hungry and everywhere. The strange thing is that Tom had a fish that was no walleye, big big cat for sure. Hook unbuttoned on that one. Also I boated 2 small flats about 10lbs each and a third at the boat got off.

I've never experienced that before and tried everything to catch these fish, circle hook, oct hook, lip hooking bait. I guess I should have thrown a stinger hook on.

It's fun to get all those runs, but sad to not hook up. At one point Tom asked if it was ok to cry

[harvey lee]

Very tough night indeed. The worst was not knowing how big that flathead was. Those pesky walleyes were a pain in the back side to say the least.

[honky kong]

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Very tough night indeed. The worst was not knowing how big that flathead was. Those pesky walleyes were a pain in the back side to say the least.

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those pesky walleyes. post this in the walleye forum, it has to get some one riled up. too funny. only a catman will utter these words.

[hanson]

Ouch!

Channel Cats or Walleyes man. Those look like some teeth marks to me with a little channel cat rash ta boot!

Weird thing about last night for me is we did not have 1 single clicker run, but put 4 fish in the boat and lost one at boatside. They were chomping and sitting with it or coming upstream, every one of them.

[Flaco651]

I ran into the same problems last night. I had 4 runs, completely missed 2, and two unbuttoned during the battle. The last one that got off I have been thinking about all morning. It seemed to be very large.

Riverhog managed get on the board and land two flatheads, and another buddy got a lil' one. Riverhogs 2 were similar in size. His first one to enter was 29.5x16.5, 10 lbs 11oz.

Dtro, I'll get the pics to ya later tonight when I get a little more time.

[rushing]

Missed a bunch when I was out last but managed a few tiny flats not much bigger than the bullies I was using and they were small as well.

[DARK30]

Sounds like you need a stinger...and a spinner blade or two

[redrocketangler]

Looks like the leatherbacks were bitin, throw on a carrot!!!

I also had the same thing keep happening friday night.

[Shack]

When I use bullies up in Elk River, I get the same thing. If tags and rod bends were fish, I would have alot of them. On Sat. night I changed to a 2-3" bully and would you know it, nothing would hit that thing. When I use 4" or 5", they pop the guts right out of the bullies anal area. They cut and crunch that thing untill it is dead. This is only time time bully is dead when I real up. I figure it was walleyes or channel. I get this more so by bridges than deeper holes. This is what leads me to think, walleyes.

[Scott K]

Sounds like you found some turtles! They love to eat the bellies out. And they are very hard to hook!

[Shack]

I do get into mud turtles allot during summer. I have learned their biting habits and 9 times out of 10 they are on. No nibbles, no tags, just a long haul getting them in and if hooked bad, cutting line. I throw out cut sucker and crawlers (they love these in summer time) in same area and get nothing (except for channels). Once and awhile, I have found turtles will shred and tear bait off, this is not the case. I get fish type tags and bangs, but not enough to suck bait all the way in. Mud turtles just get on and stay there. I though of turtle's, but have not caught one yet on other rigs this year. In Elk River some years, you can get 50-60 season. They suck and are a pain.